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Reptilia    Squamata (part)    Teiidae  

Priscilla’s Whiptail
Aspidoscelis priscillae Cole, Taylor, Neaves, Baumann, Newton, Schnittker, and Baumann, 2017

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
This newly named species was generated in the laboratory by hybridization between A. uniparens and A. arizonae (as A. inornatus) (Cole et al., 2017, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 161: 285–321).

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Missouri

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1970 Gorman, George C. Chromosomes and the systematics of the family Teiidae (Sauria, Reptilia). Copeia 1970(2):230-245
2002 Reeder, Tod W., Charles J. Cole, and Herbert C. Dessauer. Phylogenetic relationships of Whiptail lizards of the genus Cnemidophorus (Squamata: Teiidae): A test of monophyly, reevaluation of karyotypic evolution, and review of hybrid origins. American Museum Novitates (3365):1-61
2017 Cole, Charles J., Harry L. Taylor, William B. Neaves, Diana P. Baumann, Aracely Newton, Robert Schnittker, and Peter Baumann. The second known tetraploid species of parthenogenetic tetrapod (Reptilia: Squamata: Teiidae): Description, reproduction, comparisons with ancestral taxa, and origins of multiple clones. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 161(8):285-321

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